Today I was silenced.
I received a call from my sister today telling me I needed to stop posting things on Facebook. My posts have been upsetting people in my ward and in my family. My sister received a call from my aunt asking if I was leaving the mormon church. My aunt advised my sister to tell me to take down my facebook posts and to change my profile picture (I had a picture of a candle - in support of John Dehlin). She said that if my mother saw these things it would certainly kill her. And she didn't mean it would just hurt her. She meant it would actually physically kill her. She is a frail woman. She has gone through a lot. First she had sarcoidosis. Then she got breast cancer. Then she got lung cancer....and I'm sure she's had some skin cancers removed. Then when she was in remission from everything my dad got prostate cancer and died. Life has been horrible for her. So now she is one messed up bundle of shaky nerves. Her immune system is horribly compromised. She really is fragile. So, for her sake, I will be silent - on facebook. But I will anonymously be loud. This blog is my megaphone and I will turn it on full blast.
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